Originally Posted by Zen Scanner
Not sure if it would be helpful, but the Eides who wrote the Dyslexic Advantage have this slideshow talking about trade-offs in gifted minds. http://www.slideshare.net/drseide/brains-on-fire-gifted-thinkers

Just strikes me that swapping in written instead of spoken and your descriptions sounds like dyslexia. Dunno, but maybe that slideshow can offer at least some abstract measures to look at it.

It's funny because I asked DS's grade 1 teacher about dyslexia and she said it was too soon to tell, but OH MY you should have seen his writing. So many letter reversals... he even wrote a couple of sentences in complete mirror image (it was bizarre). It has gotten much better though.